Archive for the ‘ Exhibitions ’ Category
Pavilion will be showing Observance a series of long exposure portraits of people from a wide spectrum of faiths in a meditative state of prayer. The work explores whether this internal experience can be recorded and communicated via a photographic medium. Long exposures hark back to the beginnings of photography, when film was slow and shutter-speeds [ READ MORE ]
“Paris Photo” will present a panoramic overview of worldwide photographic expression, spanning the 19th century to the present day while also unveiling an emerging international scene. For its 13th edition, Paris Photo turns the spotlight on photographic work from the Arab countries and Iran in what is an unprecedented exploration of the practice in this [ READ MORE ]
The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first UK retrospective of leading French contemporary artist Sophie Calle. Sophie Calle’s work involves encounters with strangers that are both deeply personal and revealing of broader social issues. Placing trust in individuals, her artistic social experiments explore identity, the connections between individuals and the boundaries between the public and private [ READ MORE ]
ArtAfro is introducing an exciting new exhibition of contemporary African artworks, presenting a number of young gifted artists who depict their own afro centric styles through a range of mediums. The week long event brings together a diverse mix of works from artists whose styles are very evocative, yet contemporary. This forthcoming show sheds [ READ MORE ]
British artist Roger Hiorns uses unusual materials to effect surprising transformations on found objects and urban situations. Fire emerges from storm drains, perfume permeates metal surfaces, and copper sulphate crystals colonise industrial objects. SEIZURE was Hiorns’ most ambitious work to date and his first major sculptural project within an urban site, and it marked a radical [ READ MORE ]
Bassline is a major video and audio installation created for specific spaces, in which a series of projections reveal the immediate landscape as seen by a chain of 15 walkers. See and hear the recorded testimonies of 15 local participants based on their journey around the Barbican complex with a double-bassist. These moving and intimate accounts [ READ MORE ]
Tuesday 23 June 2009 – Sunday 6 September 2009 Walking in My Mind explores the inner workings of the artist’s imagination through immersive, large-scale installation art. Ten international artists transform the Hayward Gallery’s indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture terraces into a series of gigantic sculptural environments, each of which represents an individual mindscape. Interior worlds of [ READ MORE ]
The Alphabet Project is a photography project that is taking place between March 2008 and March 2009. It involves 26 photographers from around the world. Each photographer has a first name that begins with an unique letter of the alphabet, (see right). Every two weeks the person whose letter of the alphabet it is sets a photographic [ READ MORE ]
For their South London Gallery exhibition Marie Cool Fabio Balducci present sculptural works taking the form of series of ‘exercises’, executed by Marie Cool in the SLG’s main space all day, continuously from 12 until 6pm, Tuesday to Sunday, throughout the six-week run of the show, regardless of whether or not there are visitors in [ READ MORE ]
28 May – 7 June: SHOW RCA SCULPTURE The graduating Sculpture students’ exhibition will be taking place in the refurbished Sculpture building in Battersea which has been highly praised for its space and light. Students will be exhibiting both large-scale work, as well as mixed media installations.Open 11am – 6pm daily. Late Fridays: open until 8pm. For [ READ MORE ]